CO129-254 - Governor Sir Robinson - 1892 [1-4] — Page 487

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that, when land is surrendered as

being no longer required for military

purposes, the Military authorities

are in fact surrendering what has no

appreciable value to themselves,

and that the Colony is merely recover-

ing its own property, from the use

of which it has long been de

barrid.

typom this point of am to user to par 3 of The letter from this depart sent 24" November last In this view of the case it ought

not to be expected to contribute any-

thing at all, but his Lordship thinks

that under the circumstances the so-

lution is to be found between this

view and the other extreme view ad-

vanced in your letter under reply,

and that the assessment of the rela-

should tive interests of the two parties must

be arrived at by some third person.

3.

The general principle to be

settled, once for all, could conven-

iently be raised and decided upon the

simple case of Murray Battery, which

it is proposed in paragraph 15 of War

Office letter to Treasury of 31st March

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